• Enlightenment was distinctly cosmopolitan; philosophes could be found from Philadelphia to Saint Petersburg. The philosophes considered themselves part of a grand...
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  • on France's 'Nouveaux Philosophes' and the Crisis of Marxism". SubStance 11(4), 56-67 Gilles Deleuze, « Les nouveaux philosophes », supplément au n° 24...
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    a public conveyance (and arguably perversion) for some ideas of the Philosophes. The narrative starts with Therese, sexually precocious in spite of herself...
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    the Counter-Revolutionary antipathy towards the philosophes. All three directly blamed the philosophes in France and the Aufklärer in Germany for devaluing...
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    in France simply as BHL, he was one of the leaders of the "Nouveaux Philosophes" (New Philosophers) movement in 1976. His opinions, political activism...
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    adopted by the authors of the United States Constitution. While the philosophes of the French Enlightenment were not revolutionaries and many were members...
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    Nouvel Observateur. Bruckner began writing in the vein of the nouveaux philosophes or New Philosophers. He published Parias (Parias), Lunes de fiel (Evil...
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    January 1743 – 14 October 1803) was a French philosopher, known as le philosophe inconnu ("the unknown philosopher"), the name under which his works were...
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau (category Philosophes)
    Romantic primitivism. The first to criticize Rousseau were his fellow Philosophes, above all, Voltaire. According to Jacques Barzun, Voltaire was annoyed...
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    'the Dark Ages' fostered by Renaissance humanists and Enlightenment philosophes has, of course, long since been abandoned by scholars." Nicolson, Marjorie...
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